Stephen Mills (journalist)

Stephen Mills (born 1 July 1952) is an English wildlife filmmaker, conservation journalist and author.

He has made or worked on over 40 wildlife films for television, including the major BBC series Land of the Tiger with Valmik Thapar[3] and The Private Life of Plants[4] with Sir David Attenborough.

[8] He has also written, filmed and co-produced several complete wildlife series for Radio Telefis Eireann.

Mills has written extensively for numerous journals, magazines and newspapers, in particular New Scientist, the Times Literary Supplement and BBC Wildlife, often focusing on investigative work.

He was, for example, an early exposer of the risks to seabirds of overfishing[12] and the threat of genetic decline in Britain's native trout[13] and he has also written influential articles on the public role of wildlife films.